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The Hired Man's 
Courtship 



A PLAY IN TWO SCENES 



By A. K. CRIPPS 



Copyright, 1S21, EMridge Eatert*iitin«nt House. 



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Cast of Characters 

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Mr. Horton — a prosperous Pennsylvania farmer. 

Mary Horton — his wife 

Ruth Horton — his only daughter 

Captain Ralph Edwards, a wealthy young man from 
Philadelphia 

Jim Abies — a hired man of year's standing on the Hor- 
ton farm. 

Hepsey Sanders — who has worked in the Horton home 
until she is almost like one of the family. 

Ezra Johnson — (colored/ a returned soldier 



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Scene — Thi dining room in the Horton farm house. 

Mr. Horton and Jim arc resting after the noonday meal. 
Mrs. Horton is se icing. Hepsey is clearing the table and 
R >th is standing i> : i the window reading a newspaper. 

Ruth — Here is your advertisement for help in the 
Centerville News Father. Do you want to see it? (She 
brings it to him. 

Mr. H. — Yes, and I'm going to hire every man who 
answers that ad without a question. With all this hay 
to get up, I'm almost crazy. And the harvest is upon 
us. I don't care what the fellow is like, I'm going to get 
him into the field as quickly as possible. A man can't 
be particular in these days of terrible labor shortage. 

Hepsey — Sure, now, Mr. Harvey, don't you go and 
get reckless. You ought to inquire into the habits and 
past lives of the men you hire. You might get one of 
them Bol-she-vik-eyes, in disguise. 

Mr. H. — Well, I reckon that's about the best way a 
Bolshevik could disguise himself, getting down and 
working hard day after day, and you know I won't stand 
f >r idling. No, if a man will go at it and work. I'll hire 
him if he's bow-eyed and cross-legged. 

Jin (laughing) Well, now that would be some fel- 
ler, wouldn't it? But, speakin' of them I. W. W.'s. I'd 
a-been a-trampin' yet if it wasn't that every once in a 
while one o' then guys would come up and call me 
'brother," and I didn't like the notion. I thought I'd 
work a while, and sort of get people to understand that 
I am a loyal citizen before I take up trampin' again. But 
A£ -non as I have folks convinced, I reckon I'll hear the 
call of the open road, and then what will Hepsey do? 

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(Hepsey glowers at hint and shakes her fist.) 

Mrs. H. — (laughing) Now, Jim Abies, you know 
you have been a hard-working, sober man all your life. 
We don't any of us believe that tramp story, but there 
comes Harvey's first applicant up the walk. 

(Knock outside. Ruth goes to the door. Enter Ez- 
ra Johnson.) 

Ezra — Is dis where Mr. Harvey Horton libs? I ad- 
mire to see him a minute on business. 

Mr. H. — Well, I'm the man. Do you want to work? 

Ezra — I shore do, Boss. 

Mr. H. — Can you do what you're told without stop- 
ping to talk about it? 

Ezra — I shore can, Boss. Dat's jis v what I has been 
doin' fer de las' free years, sah. 

Mr. H. — Well, go along with Jim v there, and get 
the horses out. I'll be out in a minute. 

(Knock at the door. Mr. Horton opens it and Ralph 
Edwards steps inside.) 

Edwards — I came to see if I could get — 

Mr. H. — (interrupting) Yes, you can. I never 
needed help so bad in my life. You can start in work- 
ing this afternoon, but you can't work in those duds. 
Step into the bedroom there and I'll bring you some work 
clothes. Hurry, for we are just ready to start for the 
field. We'll talk things over further this evening after 
supper. 

(In the meantime, Ruth has raised her face from 
the paper and her eyes meet Edwards*. Both start with 
surprise arid Ruth quickly takes refuge behind her paper. 
Without a word, Edwards goes into the room designated 
and Mr. H. takes him overalls and a blue shirt.) 

Hepsey — That boy ain't used to workin'. I'll bet he 
don't know a cornstalk from a tater bug. You're plumb 
crazy, Harvey Horton, a-bringin' these strange men on 
the place. Did you see how he looked at Ruthie? He'?l 
be makin' love to her yit. 



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Ruth — Oh, Aunt Hepsey. Please keep quiet. He'll 
hear you. 

Hepsey — Well, he will, now. Didn't I see him? Why 
he never tuk eyes offen you all the time yer pa was a- 
talkin'. Do you reckon I can't see? 

Rath — (despe rately) Sh-sh ! 

Hepsey — Well, I'm goin' now. I've got to git some 
taters fer supper. Call me if you need me, Mrs. Hor- 
ton. (Exit.) 

(Noise outside. Mrs. H. jumps up and rims out.) 
Mrs. H. — Harvey, come quick, the hogs are into my 
garden again. 

(Edwards comes from the bedroom just as Mrs. H. 
leaves the roow, follotvea by her husband. He comes at 
once to Ruth. 

Edwards — Ruth, girl! Why don't you speak to me? 
Why don't you introduce me to your parents? Why did 
you leave me last winter in Philadelphia without a word? 
You've given me torture, honey. 

Ruth — Did you come here to find me? You didn't 
come to get work on the farm? 

Edwards — No, I didn't come here to get work, but 
I got it, and I found you. Now, I'm going to stay as 
long as I can please your father. Perhaps you will ex- 
plain it all some day. 

Ruth — I hate you. And the longer you stay, I'll de- 
spise you more. 

Edward? — But you loved me last winter. You told 
me you did. 

Hepsey — (bursting in with a pan full of potatoes; 
seize* Ruth's arm and pushes her out of the room) I'll 
stay here with you, you young jackanapes. Didn't I say 
you wasn't to be trusted? Here you are a-flirtin' with 
Ruthie already. Young man, don't you let me see you 
talk in' to her no more while you work here or I'll tell 
Mr. Harvey an' have you fired. There's sumthin' wrong 



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or a young feller of your stripe wouldn't be hirin' out 
as no farm hand. 

Edwards — I assure you that I am respectable. I 
can give the best of references. 

Hepsey — Oh, fish! That's what they all say. There 
ain't a man on earth but what will bear watchin' ! 

Mr. H. — (outside) I'm ready, now. 

(Exit Edwards. Hepsey stands by the table, shak- 
ing her head.) 

CURTAIN 



SCENE II. 
(Two months later. The same room. Mr. and Mrs. 
H. are resting in rockers. Hepsey is sewing buttons on 
an apron.) 

Mr. H. — It has been two months since I hired Ezra 
and Ralph and we've surely gone through a lot of work. 
They are the best hands I ever hired during the sum- 
mer. I expected Ralph to go the coming Saturday, but 
it was a blow to me to find that Ezra and Jim are leav- 
ing, too, the first of October. 

Hepsey — (dropping her work) You don't mean 
that Jim Abies is leavin' you after all these years. I 
know it comes from that city chap you hired. He's at 
the bottom of all this. 

Mr. H. — Why, Hepsey, he's made a fine hand. He 
was just back from the army and he was as sound as a 
knot. He says he loves the country and will never go 
back to the city to live. He took to farming like a duck 
takes to water. He says he thinks that army life spoiled 
the city for him. There is one thing I don't understand, 
though, Mother, that Ezra knew Ralph right away and 
saluted him quite properly. A half hour later I heard 
Ralph offering Ezra twenty-five dollars if he'd keep still 



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about who he was. Now, what do you reckon he is 
ashamed of? 

Mrs. H. — He seems like such a fine boy. I can't im- 
agine that he can be wanting to hide. Why, he is just 
the kind of man I'd have wanted my son to be had I 
ever had one. But he has worried Ruth in some way, 
though I can't imagine how, for he never hardly spoke 
to her. It was just the way he looked at her, I suppose. 
I think he worships her, but I've never breathed such a 
thing to Ruth. For, after all, there is something wrong, 
or a man of his education would never be working on a 
farm as a laborer. I'm sorry Jim is leaving you, too. 

Hepsey — Everlastin', jumpin' rabbits, Mr. Horton, 
where is Jim a-goin'? He's worked here since before I 
did. 

Mr. H. — Jim claims he's bought the 25 acres 
across the road, a part of the Hill place and he is going 
to marry and settle down. I suppose he's old enough. 
He'll be forty-seven this coming Christmas time. 

Hepsey — (fanning herself and shaking her head) 
Jim Abies a-buyin' a farm and a-contemplatin' matri- 
mony! My land! 

Mr. H. — Something you have never contemplated, 
eh, Hepsey? Well it's not too late yet, maybe Jim's fig- 
urin' on taking you along. 

Hepsey — Everlastin', jumpin' rabbits, now, Mr. 
Horton, you don't reckon nothin' like that, do you? 

Mr. H. — No telling. He surely said he was going to 
get married if he could arrange things the coming year. 
He's an old fool for leaving a good home like this. 

Hepsey — He's no fool, Mr. Horton. He'll be in be- 
fore long. I guess I'll go change my dress. < Exit. ) 

(Mr. H. winks at Mis. H. and she smiles and nods.) 

Mrs. H. — And where is Ezra going? 

Mr. H. — He says he's going to work for the man 
who has bought the Hill j 



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(Enter Ruth, prettily dressed in ivhite. She has 
been crying. She throws herself into, a chair.) 

Ruth — This is just too much. I heard in town this 
afternoon that Captain Edwards is the man who has 
bought the Hill place. It wasn't enough to come here 
and stay in my home all summer, where I'd see him ev- 
ery day. He had to buy the adjoining farm and make it 
his permanent home. I call it cruel. He's even made 
Mother care for him. 

Mr. H. — Why, Ruthie, girl, what do you mean? I 
don't see what he's done. He never hardly speaks to 
you. I didn't know that you cared for him. 

Ruth— I'm trying so hard not to, and I don't believe 
1 would if he'd only go away. I met him last year when 
I visited Margaret Blair in Philadelphia. I never told 
either of you. I was too unhappy. I loved him then, 
and Dad, he asked me to marry him. I told him he must 
come and become acquainted with you folks first and 
then I'd give him his answer, but he knew that I cared 
for him and others knew that we cared for each other. 
Then, just the afternoon before I left, his cousin came 
to see me. She made me hate him. 

Mr. H. — Why, daughter, what do you mean? 

Ruth — She said he married a simple country girl, 
just about my age last year and then deserted her just 
before her baby was born and she felt that it was her 
duty to come and tell me. She begged me to never tell 
Ralph, because they were not friendly. 

Mr. H. — The rotten scoundrel. I'd like to thrash 
him. I'll settle with him. 

Mrs. H. — But I can't believe this is true. Some- 
times people have underhanded reasons for telling such 
tales. I certainly would have given him a chance to de- 
fend himself. 

Mr. H. — Now, Mother, what reason could his cousin 
have? That story sounds bad. He's followed Ruth here 
and hounded her all summer, and now he roosts right un- 



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der her nose and takes my help away with him when he 
goes. I know he let Jim have his little .spot on time, 
gave him long payments. I'll fix him. (Calls to Jim out 
the door.) Hey, Jim, tell Edwards to come in here. 

(Enter Edwards.) 

Edwards — Jim says that you want to see me, Sir. 

Mr. H. — (angrily pacing the floor) Yes, I do. Nev- 
er wanted to see anybody worse. I'm going to thrash 
the lining out of you, too, in about a minute. 

Edwards — I'd like to know what I've done. I feel 
that is my right. 

Mr. H. — Don't talk rights to me. You came here 
and asked me for work. 

Edv:ards — I never asked you for work, Mr. Horton. 
I came here two months ago. I needed water for my car. 
It stopped just around the bend in the road. You thought 
I had come for work and you thrust it upon me. That 
night after you had all retired, I carried water to the 
car and ran it back to your little town and ieft it in the 
garage. It is there yet. I had reasons for wanting to 
stay here this summer, and no particular reason for not 
staying. I have given you good service and I don't un- 
derstand your attitude this evening. 

Mr. H. — And why did you want to stay, young man? 

Edwards — (looking him straight in the eye) Be- 
cause I love your daughter, Sir. 

Mr. H. — (advancing toward him threateningly) 
That's about enough. 

Edwards — I met her last winter in Philadelphia. We 
cared for each other then, and I had asked her to marry 
me. She left, suddenly, leaving me no clue as to where 
I might find her. I came upon her here, two months ago, 
entirely by accident. I knew of no reason why she 
should leave me with no explanation last winter, and I 
hoped that if I stayed here among her own people for a 
while and she knew me in these surroundings, she would 
give me some explanation and would yet consent to be- 
come mv wife. 



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Mr. H. — {raising his arm to strike) You slick 
tongued scoundrel How about the girl wife you desert- 
ed not two years ago, just before your child was born? 
I'll kill you yet. (Seizes him.) 

Mrs. H. — (seizing her husband's arm) Give him a 
chance to speak Father. Neither you nor Ruthie has 
given him a single chance to defend himself. 

Edwards — (turns to Ruth and takes her hands) Oh, 
Ruth, girl, did some one make you believe that of me? 
Tell me who told you that. Quick, dear! 

Ruth — ,(hangs her head) Your cousin, Isabelle. 

Edwards — (drops her hands and paces the room) 
Ah, I begin to see. Jim, go to my room and get the 
large envelope in the lower dresser drawer. It has a 
rubber band around it. 

Ruth — (goes to him) Do tell me, Ralph, can it be 
that it isn't true? I was sure your cousin ought to 
know. She said that she lived in your home before your 
father died. 

Edward* — No, Ruth, girl it isn't true. She did live 
in our home until Father died. Father had a strange 
idea. He believed in early marriages, and he made a 
provision in his will that ten thousand dollars was to be 
paid to my wife on her wedding day, providing I mar- 
ried prior to my twenty-fifth birthday. 

(Jim comes in with the papers. Edwards takes the 
envelope and gives it to Mr. H. Jim goes out.) 

Edwards — I think you will see there that Father 
made such a provision and that he further provided that 
if I did not marry befroe I was twenty-five, the said ten 
thousand was to be paid to Isabelle on my twenty-fifth 
birthday. I was twenty-five last May eleventh and on 
that day Isabelle received the money, because I was still 
single at that time. 

Mr. H. — I begin to see. Then your cousin feared 
that you and Ruth might be married before your com- 
ing birthday in May, so she told Ruth this story, hoping 
to prevent her marrying you and receiving your father's 
bequest. 



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Edwards — Exactly, Sir. It was worth ten thousand 
dollars to her if she could make Ruth believe that I was 
unworthy of her. She knew that we cared for each other 
last winter, Sir. 

Ruth — (going to him) Oh, Ralph, how cruel. Can 
you ever forgive me? I shall never distrust you again. 
Why she even gave me the girl's picture. I was plan- 
ning to speak to you about it, so I have it here. (Takes 
picture from inside a book on the table. 

Ralph — That is my sister who died five years ago. I 
have an exact copy of it with a note written from her 
on the back of it. She sent it to me while I was in col- 
lege. 

(Enter Jim and Hepsey, looking foolishly happy.) 
ji m — You know, Boss, I told you I was contemplat- 
in' matrimony. Well, Hepsey and me have knowed each 
other fer years and we've decided to hitch up and travel 
in double harness from this on. 

Mr. ft. — Well, you surely have my best wishes. 
Mrs. H. — I am glad, too, Hepsey, but I don't know 
how I'm to get along without you. 

(Ralph and Ruth have been standing in the back- 
iiround, talking together. Ralph puts his arm around her 
shoulders as then come to Hepsey and Jim.) 

Edwards—We wish you all the happiness in the 
world, of course. 

Hepsey— (eyeing Ralph's anni Seems to me, young 
man, I told you, you wasn't to talk to Ruthie. You are 
mighty public about your devotions I think. 

Ruth— (slyly) Oh, now, Aunt Hepsey, you must 
stop quarreling with Ralph. You'll have to love him, 
now, because I do. 

(Ezra's black hi ad first appears at thi door, and as 
hi studies the situation, he conns on in. scratching his 
wooly head.) 

Ezra— (to Ralph) Say, Cap'n, if you-ail thinks 
that you'll need a cook when you gits into the Hill house, 



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I got the dandiest little black girl in Alabamy. Don't 
you reckon I had better occupy myself wid injucin' her 
to come No'th? She shore is a fine cook, Cap'n. 

Edwards — (laughing) By all means, Ezra. 

Mr. H. — Get out of here, all of you. This disease 
must be catching. But, Ralph, you are worse than an 
I. W. W., to rob a man of his help. When you came here 
two months ago, I had two good hired men, my wife had 
a girl in the kitchen and a daughter at home to help her 
extra times and by October we will be all by ourselves. 
I call that pretty bad. (Laughs. ) 

Ezra — Law. now, Missir Horton, I'se got to wo'k 
fo' Cap'n Edwards. I wo'ked fo' his pa afo' I went to de 
wa' an' it was jest de greatest quincidence dat I met de 
Cap'n here. I got to wo'k fo' him if I can. 

Mr. H. — So you didn't want me to find out that I 
was hiring a man as a field hand who could buy and sell 
me ten times over, eh, Edwards? That was why you 
hired Ezra to keep quiet. 

Ezra — Why, I neber told nobody, Boss. How'd you 
know boughten dat? 

Mr. H. — Oh. that's all right, Ezra. I didn't find out 
who he was. But I'm thinking he's a bad kind of a man 
to have around. W T hat am I going to do for help? 

Hepsey — Sure now, Mr. Harvey, I'll be just across 
the road. I'll still work for Mrs. Horton. I couldn't 
leave her, no way. 

Ezra — Ar.' my little girl from Alibamy, will help 
Miss Ruth. 

Edwards — (slyly winking at Mrs. H.) Guess we'll 
try a little socialism. We'll buy some tractors and work 
the farms all together. 

Ezra- — One, two free, foah happy families where 
one growed befo*. T'ree cheers foah de United State of 
Matrimony. 

(All laugh and give the cheers as curtain falls.) 
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